A still from the film "Ciné-Guerrillas: Scenes from the Labudović Reels" about Stevan Labudović, the man who documented Algeria's war for independence from France. Photo courtesy of Mila Turajlic Dec.

Born of a mob uprising and led initially by men seemingly abashed at their own daring, the Algiers insurrection last week hardened into an organized revolution. By week’s end the insurgents possessed ...

Bouakba faces charges under laws long deployed against journalists, including “national symbols” offenses, showing how commentary on public figures continues to be criminalised.

Rule of law scarcely discourages the endless reprisals in Rachid Bouchareb’s Algerian War–era family-ties drama Outside the Law, which shows the FLN’s militant campaign for Algerian independence, as ...

Algeria will be celebrating its 60th independence anniversary on July 5th, 2022. Algeria gained its independence following what is known as "The Algerian War of Independence" with France, its colonial ...

Persuaded of the benefits of colonisation and the imperative need to keep Algeria under French rule, Fraysse joined the OAS ranks at 21, right after completing basic training with the 18th airborne ...

Roberto Muniz, nicknamed "Mahmoud the Argentinian," was a revolutionary fighter who joined the National Liberation Army in 1959 to support the Algerian cause in the war of independence against France.

It took Algeria’s Front de Libération Nationale (FLN) 25 years to open up to multi-party politics after the end of the bitter and bloody anti-colonial struggle against France. By then, the FLN’s ...

As Europe celebrates the 80th anniversary of its triumph over fascism and the end of World War II, Algeria is remembering a darker anniversary: the colonial-era massacres that erupted the same day. In ...

PARIS (Hollywood Reporter) - As Hollywood pours salt over the fresh wounds of the Iraq War with a wave of movies, the Algerian War is making its way out of the shadows and into the spotlight on the ...

The Algerian embassy in Doha has marked the 71st anniversary of the outbreak of the glorious November 1, 1954 revolution. Addressing the ceremony on the occasion, ambassador Saleh Attia said his ...

Millions of voters elected an Islamic political party to run the country, but the military stepped in, forced out the winners of the election and handpicked a group of politicians in their place. No, ...